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Mel) A. 1). MAOKE'Y.

HOTEL REGISTER.

No. 399,622. Patented Mar. 12, 1889.

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ARTHUR D. MACKEY, OF LAIVRENCE, KANSAS, ASSIGNOR TO L. B. MACKEY.

HOTEL-REGISTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 399,622, dated March 12, 1889.

Application filed March 26, 1888. $eria1No. 268,558. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR D. MAUKEY, of Lawrence, Douglas county, Kansas, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hotel-Registers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming a part hereof.

My invention relates to certain improvements in hotelregisters; and it'may be said to consist in the novel construction of leaves and relative arrangement of matter upon the leaves composing the book, hereinafter set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

The object of the invention .is to provide a book of this nature which will be more advantageous and serviceable than those heretofore in use.

In the drawing, which illustrzittes the manner of carrying out my invention, the figure represents a perspective view of the book opened and in position for use.

In describing my invention it will not be necessary to speak of a plurality of pages, leaves, or sheets. Upon the signature page or sheet A, I locate printed lines of words 0, and leave signature-spaces 1) between such printed lines of: words, thereby separating the signatmrespaces a coi'isiderable distance, and thereby enabling the public in general to more readily read at a glance the names of the registered guests; and they are more es pecially provided in order that the hotel-clerk, standing as he does behind. the counter, may be better enabled to read and recall the name of a guest who has just registered (or who may have registered at any previous time) without turnin g the register end for end upon the counter and interrupting the guest who is usually looking over the names on the said page at this time, as has heretofore been necessary. Said line of printed words or characters are preferably printed on said signature-page in comparatively small type, and so as to reach across or substantially across said page, and thereby practically answer as gl'iiding-lincs for the guests to write upon in registering. These lines of printed words may be made up of any number of words or coml'iinat-ion of words that I may desire to use.

To illustrate this construction and arrangement, I will take the rcgistering-space No. 6 upon the signature-page A, in which are written the name and residence of a guest who dosires to pay his bill, and the blotter page or sheet B,which is located directly opposite the signature-page, and upon the face of which are arranged blank squares or spaces E, which correspond in number to the spaces D upon the signature-page, and which are also serially numbered to correspond with the numbers on the opposite signature-page, and in the space 6 on said. blotter-page the clerk charges the guest with any extras he may have ordered during his stay at the hotel, and when the guest is to leave the clerk can use this particular space (on the blotter-page) upon which to figure the whole amount of bill against the guest, and the guest can at once see if it be right and proper or erroneous, the names on said spaces E being arranged in an inverted position with relation to the printed lines of words and numbers 011 the signaturepage, thus enabling the clerk to figure in the proper space on the blotter without turning the register, as before stated. It will thus be seen that guest No. U (by which title the clerk will designate him in using my invention) is charged in space 6 upon the blotter-page with $3.10.

The blank spaces on blotter-page B can be ruled or marked cit any desired way, which will accomplish the purpose hereinbefore stated.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. A hotel-register comprising signaturesheets and blotter-sheets alternately arranged, the pages of the signature-sheets having horizontal printed signature-lines of words, and the spaces between said lines being serially numbered, the pages of the blotter-sheets having spaces formed by horizontal and vertical lines and the spaces serially numbered in duplicate to correspond with the numbered spaces of the signature-pages, all combined substantially as set forth.

2. A hotel-register comprising signaturesheets and blotter-sheets alternately arranged, the pages of the signature-sheets having horizontal printed signature-lines of Words and the spaces between the said lines being serially numbered, the pages of the blottersheets having spaces formed by horizontal and vertical lines, and the spaces serially numbered in duplicate to correspond with the numbered spaces of the signature-pages, the said signature-sheets and blotter-sheets being arranged in reverse order to each other, and

combined as set forth, and for the purpose Io specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

ARTHUR D. MACKEY.

WVitnesses FRANK SIMPSON, J. O. HIGDON. 

